I have often wondered why people with one White and one Black parent cannot choose how they want to identify. Obama,Kaeperdick and Bubba Wallace could ID as White:
An NBC News report was called out by conservatives as hypocritical for promoting the notion it was "impossible" to change one's race, while denying this argument could also apply to gender.
"[E]xperts underscore that it is simply impossible to change your race," NBC emphasized before quoting assistant professor Jamie Cohen at CUNY Queens College, who described transracialism as a social contagion.
Experts told the outlet that it was impossible to change one's race, not because of biology but because of racism embedded into society.
"Experts agree race is not genetic. But they contend that even though race is a cultural construct, it is impossible to change your race because of the systemic inequalities inherent to being born into a certain race," the article read.
Conservatives on Twitter ripped the opinions in the report disavowing comparisons to the transgender movement.
"Sex and race are both are biological physical traits of an organism rooted in unique and immutable DNA, why is it celebrated to change one and ridiculous to change the other?" a libertarian account asked.
Attorney Jenin Younes blasted the media outlet as "desperate" for trying to distinguish the two social movements from each other.
"‘Experts’ and media outlets like NBC are now desperately trying to distinguish identifying as another race from identifying as another gender. You can’t identify as another race, they say, because race is only a social construct (this is ridiculous)," she tweeted.
"Also, don’t the same people say gender is just a social construct? But you CAN change gender, according to them (not me). This is what happens when we let the lunatics run the asylum. God help us all," she added.
An NBC News report was called out by conservatives as hypocritical for promoting the notion it was "impossible" to change one's race, while denying this argument could also apply to gender.
"[E]xperts underscore that it is simply impossible to change your race," NBC emphasized before quoting assistant professor Jamie Cohen at CUNY Queens College, who described transracialism as a social contagion.
Experts told the outlet that it was impossible to change one's race, not because of biology but because of racism embedded into society.
"Experts agree race is not genetic. But they contend that even though race is a cultural construct, it is impossible to change your race because of the systemic inequalities inherent to being born into a certain race," the article read.
Conservatives on Twitter ripped the opinions in the report disavowing comparisons to the transgender movement.
"Sex and race are both are biological physical traits of an organism rooted in unique and immutable DNA, why is it celebrated to change one and ridiculous to change the other?" a libertarian account asked.
Attorney Jenin Younes blasted the media outlet as "desperate" for trying to distinguish the two social movements from each other.
"‘Experts’ and media outlets like NBC are now desperately trying to distinguish identifying as another race from identifying as another gender. You can’t identify as another race, they say, because race is only a social construct (this is ridiculous)," she tweeted.
"Also, don’t the same people say gender is just a social construct? But you CAN change gender, according to them (not me). This is what happens when we let the lunatics run the asylum. God help us all," she added.
